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stays the flux of humours to the joints, if laid thereto; or 

 mixed with the yolk of an egg, honej, or turpentine, draws, 

 cleanses, and heals boils, plague sores, or foul ulcers. 

 It is more useful for food than medicine ; though a poul- 

 tice made of it with milk, eases pains, ripens tumours and 

 impo8lhumations ; and a piece of toastea bread dipped in 

 wine, and applied to the stomach, is good to stay vomiting. 



WHITLOW-GBASa— (ZVofta Vema,) 



Deacrip. — Ithasan annual fibrous root; the stem is round, 

 branchy, hairy, of a red colour, and four or five inches 

 high ; the leaves are pretty numerous, small, broadest at the 

 extremity, and divided into three segments ; their colour 

 is reddish. The flowers terminate the stem and branches 

 in considerable numbers ; white, small, but conspicuous. 

 The seeds are numerous and very minute. 



Pf ace.— It grows on the roofs of houses, old walls, and 

 among rubbish. 



Time. — It tiowers in April. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under Jupiter. A strong 

 infusion of the whole plant, fresh gathered, is an excellent 

 sweetener of the blood and juices, and good against scor- 

 butic complaints in general. Those who wish to use it all 

 the year, should make a syrup of its juice in the spring, 

 or beat the leaves into a conserve with su^jar, for the dried 

 plant loses all its virtues, and is only to be had fresh for a 

 short time in the spring. 



WHORTLE.— ( Vaccinium MyrtUlu$, 



Descrip.— It is a small shrub, with slender purplish 

 branches. The leaves are round, obtuse at the ends, and 

 not serrated on the edges. The flowers are greenish, with a 

 tinge of red ; the berries are round, red, and well tasted. 



Plaice, — This species of the Bilberry- bush is common in 

 our northern counties on boggy ground. 



Time. — It flowers in May. 



Virtues. — The bark of the root is warm and dry, it opens 

 obstructions of the liver and spleen. The unripe fruit is 

 drying and binding, good for fluxes of all kinds, and in- 

 flammations in the mouth and throat. The ripe fruit is 

 cooling, good to allay the heat of burning fevers ; it ifl 

 grateful to the stomach, and creates an appetite. 



